Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country